Mr Lewis Brennen
Postgraduate Research Student
Mr Lewis Brennen is a Postgraduate Research Student within the Department of History at the University of Southampton.
I completed both my BA and MA in History at the University of Southampton and am now continuing there as a Postgraduate Researcher. My interests lie in the social, cultural, and political history of early modern Europe and, more particularly, in the history of witchcraft. My undergraduate dissertation charted the development of ideas about the witch’s familiar spirit in early modern England, while my MA thesis focused on the connections between witchcraft and prophecy. My doctoral research is centred on the intersections between witchcraft and politics in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.